Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-01-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A prisoner in the Santa Clara
County Jail, California, has invented
water-wheel which is said to be great
Improvement on the turbine wheel.
In party of eleven prisoners re-
Gently taken from Albany, N. Y, to
the insane asylum at Auburn, were
seven men who were guilty of murder.
Albany Journal
"A Woodland (Cal.) paper gives
the pleasing information that the
road to Hell's Half-Acre has been
graded and graveled and is now in
passable condition.
"A gentleman in Culpeper, Va,
has been regularly paying taxes on
three one thousand dollar bonds which
he supposed he owned, but which, it
has lately been ascertained, were stolen
by his agent several years ago.-Bdtts-
more american.
"A young man in Lancaster, Pa,
before going to bed the other night,
hung his pantaloons upon the gas jet.
The weight of the clothes opened the
stop, letting the gas out and the young
man was found dead the next morning.
| -PHtS0nTqh F0St.
While Mrs. Rebecca Phillips, of
Blairsville, Ga, was milking, recently.
she fell back with pain in her head
and died in great agony that night.
The COW. apparently perfectly healthy,
was similarly stricken and died at the
same time.-Atlanta Constitution.
Grapes are now recommended as
| Gov ohocitu A nDIlnH Ot
grapes is given the patient to be eaten
the first day, and this amount is in
creased until he can eat five or SIX
pounds day. Other food is gradually
lessened, and the diet at last consists
wholly of grapes Chicago Times.
Fashionable Parisians are wearing
new charm. 1t consists of a little crys-
tai locket, in which is inclosed four
leaved clover, which, rs we all know,
infallibly brings good luck and the full
fllment of every wish to its wearer.
This charm comes from Austria, where
four-leaved clovers abound, so it
seems.
The public is reminded by the New
York Evening Post that Adam and Eve
first saw the light of day on the 2Sth of
October, 4,004 B. c., and, says the Post,
at is curious that the anniversary
should have been unwittingly selected
for the unveiling of the marvellous
statue of Liberty, the fairest of Ewes
daughters. "
Richard Comstock, of Monroe
County, Oregon, wore boots whose
: soles were fastened on with brass wire.
Recently the leather shrunk and eX-
posed piece of the wire, small
particle of the wire entered his foot and
| made its way up toward the knee.
Blood-poisoning set in and Comstock
died. Chicago Mail
Near Pembroke, Me-, recently
William Reynolds met with q serious
accident while clearing up wild land
with yoke of oxen. His team started
Unexpectedly while he was hooking to
aroot and drew the chain hook through
the palm of his hand and out at the
side of the wrist. He nearly bled to
death before reaching town.
1t is estimated by agents of the
Department of Agriculture that the
bobolink, which is one of our sweetest
song birds, and entirely inoffensive
here at the North, causes an annual
loss to the rice planters of the South of
between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000.
DR.. Merriam, of the department, sug-
gests the training of hawks for keeping
these birds away from the riceiields.-
Washington Post.
"A Shaker in settlement near
Albany tells newspaper reporter that,
while the order is little over one hun
, dred years old, it numbers only seven
! teen societies, averaging from one hun
dred to two hundred members each.
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York, Ohio and Ken
t lucky are the States in which they ex-
t ist, and their numbers are diminishing.
5 Albany ErpreSs.
1t is told that at Hoosier reunion
in Kansas every thing was lovely, and
the spirits of the meeting were flowing
freely in stream of good feeling for
' the old State. The sentiment for
Hoosierland finally eliminated in a
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted The resolution was as fol-
lows: "ReSolUed, That Indiana is great
State, that we will never go back on
e her, and, also, that we will never go
= back to her. "-Kansas City Star.
! -"Ples open all night" is sign in
= New York restaurant, and a Bowery
- placard reads Homemade Dining
q rooms, Family Oysters" A West
Broadway restaurateur sells "Home-
q made Pies, Pastry and Oysters" An
y East Broadway caterer retails "Fresh
Salt Oysters and Lager Beer" A Sixth
avenue barber hangs out sign read
ing Boots Polished Inside On an
: other street the following catches the
eye: "Washin Ironing and Going Out
4 by the Day Done Here. IN Y.
I Graphic.
i The latest industry developed in
New York is search of the street-car
4 tracks and the cutters after midnight
q with a dark lantern for lost articles
One man says he makes fair living
n by picking up things in the street, and
that he has found as much as seven
n dollars in small coins of a single morn
) ing. 1t had been dropped by people
q hurrying and crowding upon the horse
cars. Besides money, watches, knives,
a keys, trinkets, hand satchels, re-
volvers, bundles, opera glasses, etc.,
" sometimes reward the search of the
q gatherer. Y Sun.
The mania for collecting postage
ia stamps seems to be gaining more
ground than ever in France, writes the
Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph Among the most
a famous collectors in France is a man
who has over a million postage stamp:
IL preserved in thirteen richly bound
volumes, and another who keeps two
O; clerks employed in classifying and az
ranging his enormous collections